Cultivated grapes
.The cultivated grape of the grape family is a deciduous but evergreen liana with long, knotty shoots climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves are ordinary, simple, toothed, mostly three to five-lobed. Flowers are numerous, small, greenish, five-lobed, in loose or dense panicles, often fragrant. The fruit has cultural grapes are juicy. The berries are green or dark, reddish-blue, gathered in bunches of different shapes. Seeds 1-7 in a berry, pear-shaped or ovoid. Cultural grapes bloom in May-June, fruiting in August-September.
In its feral state, the cultivated grape is found in the Caucasus and Central Asia. It is one of the oldest fruit crops. Cultivated grapes were widely cultivated in the USSR - in the Caucasus, Ukraine, Central Asia, Moldavia, Crimea.
The ripe fruits are used.
Chemical composition and beneficial properties of grapes
Useful properties of grapes are known to many doctors and phytotherapists. Sugars, tannins, quercetin, glycosides, organic acids, ascorbic acid, vitamin B are found in the fruit. The leaves contain sugars, inositol, quercetin, tannins, carotene, choline, betaine, organic acids.
Acts and uses of grapes
The fruits of grapes have mild laxative and diuretic properties. For therapeutic purposes, the useful properties of grapes are used in low nutrition, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (chronic gastritis with increased secretion of gastric contents, spastic and atonic constipation), chronic dry and effusion pleurisy with delayed resorption, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma in mild and moderate form, pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic nephritis and nephrozo-nephritis (without hypertension and edema), chronic urethritis and uro-cystitis, hemorrhoids, metabolic disorders, anemia, gout, etc.
Despite all the useful properties of grapes, its fruits are contraindicated: with diabetes, obesity, peptic ulcer disease, heart failure with edema and hypertension, uremic state, chronic suppurative processes in the lungs, bronchiectatic disease, diarrhea.
In domestic folk medicine treatment with grapes is used as an antipyretic and antipyretic, for kidney disease, kidney stone disease, stones in the liver and gallbladder, hemorrhoids.
Cheekwort
.The lentil plant (lentil grass) is an annual plant of the buckwheat family with a simple or weakly branched stem 30-60 cm high, with bloated nodes. Leaves broadly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, alternate, more often sessile, lower leaves on petioles, almost always with a brown spot in the middle. Flowers Pochechuyny mountain has small pinkish, less often whitish with a greenish tinge, collected at the top of the stem and branches in dense brushes 5-8 mm thick. Nektaronos. The lentil flower blooms from June to August (Fig. 15).
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Pochechuya burnet is distributed throughout the former USSR, except in the north. Grows along riverbanks, ditches, on wet places, in gardens, vegetable gardens.
It uses 35-40 cm long pedunculate stems collected during flowering. The lentil highlander has no odor. The flavor of the plant is bitter and astringent.
Chemical composition
.The herb contains tannins, rutin, phlobaphenes, quercetin, traces of essential oil, mucilage, sugars, ascorbic acid, gallic, acetic and butyric acids.
Acts and uses of gentian
The use of gentian gentian is recommended in the form of infusions. Infusion and liquid extract have diuretic, laxative and pronounced styptic properties, mainly in uterine bleeding due to uterine atony, inflammatory processes of the uterus, heavy menstruation and hemorrhoidal bleeding. It has been experimentally established that the use of gentian when administered intravenously and on isolated organs enhances heart activity, narrows vessels, has no significant effect on blood pressure, tonifies the uterus and intestines, increases blood coagulation and viscosity. This herb is also used to treat atonic and spastic constipation.
In Bulgaria, the use of pepper gentian is recommended as a styptic agent in the form of infusion for uterine, gastrointestinal bleeding, diarrhea, dysentery, kidney stone disease. The plant has antibacterial activity. Crushed fresh plant is recommended to apply to wounds for faster healing. Infusion is contraindicated in acute inflammation of the kidneys. The herb is an official raw material in the USSR. It is also used in Polish and Indian medicine and in Czechoslovakia.
In domestic folk medicine, the use of gentian in the form of decoction is recommended for hemorrhoids accompanied by bleeding, with uterine bleeding, bleeding with bleeding, as a strongly astringent remedy for diarrhea and to strengthen the mucous membrane of the gums. Fresh herb is applied to the back of the head like a mustard for headaches. Decoction is used to treat wounds and ulcers, with rashes and various rashes in the form of a rinse, as well as a remedy with diuretic effect.
All parts of the plant can be used as a spicy seasoning.
We use the leafy tops of this plant mixed with other herbs for hemorrhoids and varicose veins.
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